Give better financial help to the self employed during the coronavirus crisis.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Provide income payments to self employed workers similar to how the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme ensures employees have a reasonable percentage of their take-home pay. The payments should be both timely and as simple as possible to access.

Self-employed workers are surely just as important to the UK economy and its future recovery as employees of businesses are. Access to Universal Credit for the self employed is welcome but the payments do not go far enough. Most self employed people are suddenly going from their normal income to zero income yet with all their costs still in place. A Taxi driver may have to pay the entire monthly amount from universal credit on their car finance before food & rent.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Since you started your petition the Government has announced support for self-employed individuals: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/chancellor-gives-support-to-millions-of-self-employed-individuals

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: https://www.gov.uk/coronavirus

Timeline

21 Mar 2020	Petition opened for signatures
31 Mar 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 31 Mar 2020

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